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Kernel Search

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Kernel's search crawler that indexes web pages for AI-powered search and retrieval.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

AI Search

Identification

Bot name

Kernel Search

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Block or allow Kernel Search

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for KernelSearchBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Kernel Search from crawling your entire site
User-agent: KernelSearchBot
Disallow: /

# Allow Kernel Search full access
User-agent: KernelSearchBot
Allow: /